Word: echo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radical writing should have some programmatic content, however. This article accordingly does suggest some goals for organized action. Why, after all, to echo one of its questions, is there no student center at Harvard...
What emerges from this definitive show is that Jordaens was not just a poor man's Rubens-who in that day was the acknowledged titan who bestrode not only the narrow world of Antwerp but all the courts of Europe. Certainly many of Jordaens' paintings echo his master, just as do some of Van Dyck's, Rubens' other (and younger) disciple. Van Dyck went to the British court to make a successful career as perhaps the sleekest portraitist of all time. Jordaens stayed in Antwerp...
...Wilbur's style has changed surprisingly little since his first collection, published over twenty years ago, it has been because he found his voice in the beginning. Consciously poetic, nostalgic, and detached, his most recent poems in the New Yorker echo the simplicity and sensitivity of the poems for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, and the National Book Award for Things of This World. The quiet titles of the New Yorker poems. "In the Field" and "in a Churchyard," recall two other poems from 1947, "In a Bird Sanctuary" and "A Dutch Courtyard...
...pictures up. Yet no matter what he showed, Watteau's view remained strangely aloof. A subtle veil of distance shrouds all his pictures, making them seem as much fantasy as reality. Unlike the nude nymphs of Boucher, Lancret and Fragonard, who with varying degrees of success were to echo his style, Watteau's aristocratic Co-lombines and shepherdesses remained fully clothed...
...some observers, the chilly, crystalline expanses seem to echo the eternal stillness and emptiness of death. To Architect Kahn, however, quite the contrary is true: "The glass makes the monument sensitive to everything around it and gives it a sense of life and hope rather than of death. One is conscious of light. Light is what we come from; we are born out of light. Light is the maker of all things, of all presences." Furthermore, he feels, the monument "is not accusing. One Pier-the chapel-speaks; the other six are silent...